POSTS TAGGED AS fiber optics

Innovative MRI Scanning

New sensor detects errors in MRI scans
“Hvidovre Hospital has the world’s first prototype of a sensor capable of detecting errors [MORE]

One Biosensor, Multiple Diseases

One Biosensor for Multiple Diseases, PoC-BoSens project
“The Fraunhofer IZM [Berlin, Germany] is coordinating the PoC-BoSens project, which comprises a transnational [MORE]

Ultra-Miniaturized Endoscope

Images from lensless computational microendoscope
A collaboration between optical engineers in Boston and Baltimore have designed a minimally invasive, lens-free, computational [MORE]

Deep Body Temperature Sensing

Imaging and Sensing Probe
“University of Adelaide researchers have invented a world-first tiny fibre-optic probe that can simultaneously measure temperature and [MORE]

Wearable Fiber Optics Tracks Body Movements

Stretchy Sensory Fabric
Engineers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University have created a sensitive and flexible optical fiber that opens new possibilities for [MORE]

Advanced Microendoscope for Esophageal Cancer Screening

Biopsies are usually taken from patients suspected of having esophageal cancer, but often the tissue is benign. To address this, [MORE]

Implantable Microscope for Brain Exploration

Laser Scanning Microscope
Neuroscientists at the University of Colorado’s medical campus in Denver have built a prototype of a tiny implantable [MORE]

Nano-Optical Tweezers

Nano Tweezers
Human DNA is two and a half nanometers in diameter; so, to pluck away a modifying molecule would take [MORE]

Laser-Enabled Breath Analysis

Breath Analysis
Breath has a physiological “fingerprint” from the small amounts of gases that are released from both healthy and diseases [MORE]

Shaping Light Pulses for 10x Data Transmission Rate

Optical Fiber EPFL
While wireless transmission capability is moving toward 1 gigabyte/second, wired capability is leaping ahead even more dramatically.  [MORE]

“Painting,” Seeing and Excising Glioblastomas

Intracranial robot prototype
There are three stories here about new neurosurgical techniques aimed at treating one of the deadliest cancers, [MORE]

Medical Products Manufacturing News’ “Top 25 Breakthroughs of the Past 25 years”

Nitinol
Here are the nuts and bolts of medical product innovation, which at least constitute high speed evolution, if not [MORE]

Artificial Touch

Fiberoptic Neurophotonics
Under a $5.6m DARPA grant, researchers at Southern Methodist University’s Neurophotonics Research Center are developing fiber optic threads [MORE]